Moondawggie
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Joined: 10/18/2003 From: Placer County CA Status: offline
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both Yamashiro and Nagato have fallen off our sunk ships list, To paraphrase The Princess Bride: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your ship here is only MOSTLY sunk. There's a big difference between mostly sunk and all sunk. Mostly sunk is slightly floating. With all sunk well, with all sunk there's usually only one thing you can do. Organise a diving holiday. Zounds, Admirals/Lords sir, perhaps you are finally running up against the new, improved Quantum Mechanics/Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Combat Resolution Improvement implemented in WITP AE. Simply put, the resolution outcome algorithm states that once you know that you really sank a given ship (energy state precisely defined), the program demands that you can't have any idea where it sank. Similarly, if you're sure a ship is located right here, then you can't know if it's undamaged, injured, or sunk. Simple quantum physics, amigos, now available on the virtual macroscopic level! This could lead to the Unified Field Theory Einstein was searching for! It may even replace current String Theory! Some refer to this ambiguity/duality as the "Schroedinger's Cat/"Battleship Nagato" Paradox. But it's actually quite simple: once you know that you sank a ship here, it can't be here any longer, or really be sunk. Capiche? Quantum computing. Quantum wargaming. The way of the future! Now I think I'll take a sip from this fresh cold one I'm holding in my hand...Ah, now there's no doubt about where it is and that it's cool and tasty! Thank goodness quantum mechanics still doesn't apply to Budweiser...
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"The Yankees got all the smart ones, and look where it got them." General George Pickett, the night before Gettysburg
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